Hoodie Printing & Embroidery

The customised hoodie is a very successful promotional garment and Pier32 offers a huge range of hoodies and an array of hoodie embroidery and hoodie printing services. But why is the hoodie such a winner and what is its history?

A brief history of the hoodie

The modern, fashionable promotional hoodie has come a long way since its functional early days.

An invention of Champion Knitwear & Sportswear, it was originally intended as an outdoor workwear garment for construction employees and labourers in the cold New York winters of the 1920s and 1930s.

Of course, hooded garments can be traced back to times long before the early 20th Century - to the monks of medieval Europe in fact.

Coming back to more recent times though, the modern hooded sweatshirt really took hold in the fashionable youth market in the 1970s, particularly amongst followers of the rapidly-growing hip-hop movement.

By the 1990s printed hoodies and embroidered hoodies were ubiquitous at universities and fashion retailers across the UK as students and teenagers wanted to make it clear that they were associated with their colleges, clubs, teams and so on.

The promotional hoodie

There are no less than 16 brands on the Pier32 Ethical Promotional Clothing website offering their own takes on the hoodie in a variety of colours, styles, weights and fabrics.

Every single one of our hooded sweatshirts is suitable for hoodie printing and hoodie embroidery to your own custom design.

Your own customised hoodies

To get your own printed hoodies or embroidered hoodies please call us on 020 8398 2847 or send us an email. We regularly produce customised hoodies for charities, universities, businesses, retailers, clubs and organisations across the UK and we're always happy to help. Should you need any advice about artwork, designs, sizes, fabrics, brands and so on then please just ask us. If you already have a reasonable idea of what you're after then please complete our Quick Quote form using the button at the top.

We print and embroider promotional clothing. Our garments are ethically produced and include WRAP certified, fairtrade, organic and bamboo ranges. We offer t-shirts, polos, hoodies, fleeces, baseball caps, sportswear, schoolwear, jackets, bags, towels, umbrellas, scarves and much more. Whether it's for a fundraising event, a product launch, a new uniform or for retail - we are your ethical choice.